The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially the poorest.
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
It's important to remember that, while poverty certainly makes single life harder, it also makes married life harder - so much harder that single life might be preferable.
Money is kind of just like air - if you don't have air, you can't breathe. If you don't have money, I don't think you'll want to breathe - you won't want to live.
Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.
Democracy holds little appeal for people who are struggling to survive.
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.
My perspective of capitalism growing up in Berkeley, Calif. in a low-income project, growing up poor, is that capitalism wanted to destroy me, they wanted me to become a worker.
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
Poverty is a soft pedal upon all branches of human activity.
Poor children fare worse than rich children on just about everything that social scientists measure.
All the other problems of poverty emanate from problems of health.
Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.
The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.
It is easy to say that poverty is no crime .... It is a blunder though, and is punished ... A poor man is despised the whole world over.
'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.
I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
Despite what you may have been taught about Indians or Africans or ancient Celts, poor people are terrible stewards of their environment. For instance, if my kid were starving to death, I would happily feed her fresh panda.
I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.
Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it.
The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.
I think connected to poverty is the trauma of poverty. It's not just a material thing; it's a psychological thing that we have no mental health system in this country.
